Realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by
your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ
as of a spotless unblemished lamb.

He was known before the
foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in God who
raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere
mutual love, love one another intensely from a (pure) heart.

You
have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding
word of God, for: "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the field; the
grass withers, and the flower wilts; but the word of the Lord remains forever." This is the word
that has been proclaimed to you.

Psalms 147:12-13.14-15.19-20.

Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

He has granted peace in your borders; with the
best of wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word!

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his
statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

He has not done thus for any other
nation; his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.

Holy Gospel of Jesus
Christ according to Saint Mark 10:32-45.

The
disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went ahead of them. They were amazed,
and those who followed were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them what was
going to happen to him.

Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and
the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him
to death and hand him over to the Gentiles who will mock him, spit upon him, scourge him, and
put him to death, but after three days he will rise."

Then James and
John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever
we ask of you." He replied, "What do you wish (me) to do for you?" They answered him, "Grant
that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left."

Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the
cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?"

They said to him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink, you
will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my
right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared."

When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus
summoned them and said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt.

But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among
you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his
life as a ransom for many."

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